The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Twin Cities Area
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wandering Around The Toimi School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Almelund Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Sandstone
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bend in the River Regional Park
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The End of the Line in Currie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Dotson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Little Marais Inn
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Franconia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Wasioja
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moving Old Hibbing
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Green Lake Mounds
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Cobden
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Florence Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City